Managing infrastructure presents a growing digital challenge

摘要

Digitalisation and the increasing amount of data that water companies have at their disposal is transforming how they operate. This information is being used to shape and streamline usage and maintenance procedures, monitor flood or pollution risks and identify operational performance issues, to comply with increasingly stringent regulations and higher customer expectations. Robotics and AI driven automation are also starting to play a part with several water companies creating innovation hubs, technology shop windows and digital sandboxes to demonstrate how these new technologies can be incorporated. These are often driven by data and require large quanti- ties of this to derive trends and inform artificial learning.